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The Moral Economy of Water: General Principles for Successfully Managing the Commons

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dc.contributor.author Trawick, Paul en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:59:15Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:59:15Z
dc.date.issued 2002 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2005-12-12 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2005-12-12 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3276
dc.description.abstract "Progress toward the goal of refuting and thoroughly revising the conventional "tragedy of the commons" model has been especially noteworthy with regard to one vital resource, irrigation water, which is particularly significant given the impending water crisis that threatens nearly every country in the 'developing' world. Recent research lends new support to the effort and promises to thoroughly refute and revise the conventional theory. It indicates that local people in a great many communities in several different parts of the world long ago arrived, independently, at a sustainable solution to the 'commons dilemma', creating a set of principles for sharing scarce water in an equitable and efficient manner that minimizes social conflict. Wherever communities have managed a scarce resource autonomously, and done so effectively over a long period of time, the principles of distribution and use appear in many cases to be highly similar if not exactly the same, and this seems to be true regardless of whether the resource is communally or privately owned." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject irrigation en_US
dc.subject water resources en_US
dc.subject environmental policy en_US
dc.subject privatization en_US
dc.title The Moral Economy of Water: General Principles for Successfully Managing the Commons en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region South America en_US
dc.coverage.region Europe en_US
dc.coverage.country Peru; Spain en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal GAIA: Ecological Perspectives in Science, the Humanities and Economics. en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 11 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 3 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth January en_US
dc.submitter.email p.trawick@cranfield.ac.uk en_US


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